body heat
noun
: heat produced in the body of a living animal by metabolic and physical activities
called also animal heat
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It’s made of soft recycled polyester microfleece and features elastic banding around the neck, wrists, and hemline to keep your body heat in.
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2025
While police guess that friction or his body heat triggered the homemade bomb, could Michelle have used her alien teleporter to set it somehow off?
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Officers there developed techniques like arm immersion — lowering soldiers’ arms into cold water during training breaks to reduce body temperature — and ice sheeting, where frozen bed sheets are wrapped around overheated troops to bring down body heat quickly.
—Ames Alexander, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
It’s filled with a cooling gel that ventilates body heat.
—Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2025
While police guess that friction or his body heat triggered the homemade bomb, could Michelle have used her alien teleporter to set it somehow off?
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Officers there developed techniques like arm immersion — lowering soldiers’ arms into cold water during training breaks to reduce body temperature — and ice sheeting, where frozen bed sheets are wrapped around overheated troops to bring down body heat quickly.
—Ames Alexander, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
It’s filled with a cooling gel that ventilates body heat.
—Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Body heat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20heat. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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